{"id":992,"date":"2017-10-23T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=news&p=992"},"modified":"2024-03-05T15:53:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T14:53:34","slug":"report-of-the-fifth-forum-z-a-new-narrative-for-europe-quo-vadis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/news\/report-of-the-fifth-forum-z-a-new-narrative-for-europe-quo-vadis\/","title":{"rendered":"Report of the fifth Forum Z \u2013 \u201cA new narrative for Europe: Quo vadis?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The fifth Forum Z focused on those who tell the story of Europe. Professors and researchers gathered to share their thoughts and discuss with the public about the challenges of developing a new narrative for Europe in the digital age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event was organised by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C\u00b2DH), in partnership with Paris-Sorbonne University\u2019s LabEx-EHNE and the Historical Archives of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This latest Forum Z, which focused on the new challenges facing historical narration in the digital age, was hosted on the 91短视频\u2019s Belval Campus at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB). It took place in French, German and English and was a resounding success, attracting around 60 people from the academic, research and teaching communities as well as the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opening address <\/strong>was given by Prof. Dr Andreas Fickers, Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C\u00b2DH), who gave a broad outline of the event and identified some of the major issues historians have to grapple with in this new narrative age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\u201c\u00c9crire une histoire nouvelle pour l\u2019Europe\u201d \u2013 lecture by Prof. Dr Eric Bussi\u00e8re, Professor at Paris-Sorbonne University, holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration History, Director of the LabEx-EHNE\u00a0<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr Bussi\u00e8re started by emphasising the fact that today\u2019s historians need to rethink the history of Europe in light of the crisis currently facing the European Union, and that placing the history of the European project within the broad sweep of history as a whole involves adopting new approaches to narrating history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the main aim of EHNE project, which was set up to develop a new historiography of Europe. The project is aimed at the academic community as well as teachers, politicians and interested citizens. A large team of French and European researchers is tackling this issue by placing the current European integration process within a broader historical perspective, avoiding conventional paradigms such as war, politics and material civilisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By focusing more closely on the history of international political relations, EHNE aims to move away from the traditional chronological and geographical frameworks applied to European political history. This approach has enabled the researchers to explore the development of a public and political space and the images and debates associated with it, while also analysing the feelings of mistrust and conspiracy that are so prevalent in our society. Rethinking the history of Europe also means giving a voice to the losing side in the Europe\u2019s wars, since their narratives, memories and experiences have made a major contribution to building the Europe of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the alchemy of European identity, and how has this cumulative process developed? What if Europe was above all the product of material civilisation? What would be the resulting geographies, chronologies, players and historical processes? And what would be the role of technological transitions, an area in which the European Union is currently positioning itself as a champion? These are just some of the major research questions that the EHNE researchers directed by Prof. Bussi\u00e8re are working to address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nThe session \u201cThe challenges of writing a new history for Europe\u201d focused on the innovative approaches, methodologies, sources, themes, educational tools and networking that influence today\u2019s historical narration<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Dr Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Clavert<\/strong>, Senior Researcher at the C\u00b2DH, spoke about \u201cDonn\u00e9es massives, nouvelles m\u00e9thodes pour l\u2019historien.ne?\u201d <\/strong>(Big data \u2013 new methods for historians?). The emergence of big data as a result of new services such as social media has raised the question of how historians can make use of these data as sources. How can historians read and interpret these sources when they constitute a vast sea of data? This presentation described a project that involved collecting Tweets about the centenary of the First World War, providing a specific example of \u201cdistant reading\u201d of big data (reading sources using computer methods) for historical purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Lhoumeau<\/strong>, Administrative Manager and Archivist in the European Parliament\u2019s Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services, gave a presentation entitled \u201cNouvelles archives, nouveaux usages: accompagner la r\u00e9volution num\u00e9rique\u201d <\/strong>(New archives, new uses: supporting the digital revolution). The European Parliament\u2019s Historical Archives offer a range of historical sources, articles and reports that provide a means of reliving the history of European integration and finding out about the role played by the European Parliament in this process. The collection contains nearly five million electronic records covering the period from 1952, the year the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (the forerunner to today\u2019s European Parliament) was set up, to the most recent parliamentary terms. Most of the European Parliament\u2019s Historical Archives have been digitised and are accessible to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEntre m\u00e9moire et histoire: les Archives historiques du Parlement europ\u00e9en face aux enjeux de l\u2019histoire orale\u201d <\/strong>(From memory to history: the Historical Archives of the European Parliament and the challenges of oral history) was the subject addressed by Dr \u00c9tienne Deschamps<\/strong> from the Historical Archives of the European Parliament. In 2009, the Historical Archives set up an oral memory project. From its initial aim of collecting accounts from former European Parliament Presidents, this project was gradually extended to include former Secretaries-General, MEPs and political figures who have played a major role in the European integration process. In methodological terms, before each interview, a thorough analysis of all the archives relating to the interviewee is carried out and a list of questions covering the key events and initiatives that took place during his or her term is drawn up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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